I fought the Cold War, I trained weekly with four UK wide Nuclear attack exercises per year.

I was an N.C.O. with the Royal Observer Corps and we were ready to man the posts in the event of a nuclear attack.

The R.O.C. was stood down in 1991 as the threat from the Soviet Union was deemed to have receded.

Today, the UK has NO defence .against a nuclear attack, NO way of measuring fallout levels. NO way to monitor radiation levels or warn of new threats. No way to determine airburst ot groundburst.

This is a recipe for disaster.

Unfortunately, the fact that August 9, 1945 was the last time a nuclear bomb was used in war doesn’t mean that the likelihood of a nuclear bomb detonating and killing tens of thousands or even millions of people is anywhere near zero.

Various experts estimate the chances of a nuclear detonation in the next 10 years at somewhere between 10 and 30 percent.

Nuclear weapons risk greater than in cold war, says ex-Pentagon chief

William Perry lists a series of factors that he says mean the chance of a ‘calamity’ is higher today than in the 1970s and 80s.

Today our nuclear weapons are run, controlled and targeted by computers and that means that there is opportunity for things to go wrong.

Kim Jong-un vows ‘World War 3’ as he threatens to pulverise US bases & South Korea capital

NORTH Korea has vowed to go to war if provoked and has blamed the US and has claimed the two opposing nations were “on the brink of war”. This dictator could simply launch an ICBM with no warning at all.

Nuclear traidentsnsport accidents

Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents have happened and will continue to happen.